Jedi Puddin (Rebel Spy/Sarlacc Farmer)

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Jaimie K. Wilson - Writer: fiction/poetry/ex journo. Also Artificer, Food McGyver, ND Hobbit Mom w/an affinity for produce, Dark Citadel Ensorscellor and Godzilla's side chick.

This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state

Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state

“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.

miamiherald.com

A South Carolina law that lets anyone 65 years old and above vote by mail but requires younger people to provide an excuse to cast absentee ballots violates the Constitution’s prohibition on abridging voting rights based on age, the Fourth Circuit ruled. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Age restrictions on mail voting are unconstitutional, Fourth Circuit says in rare 26th Amendment case

A district court will decide the remedy: no-excuse mail voting for all ages, or for no ages.

democracydocket.com

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

nytimes.com

There’s neuroscientific evidence that looking at beautiful things, esp. plants & pausing to take in the details can alleviate stress & lift mood. Here’s a subtle herbarium of pressed flowers for your synapses, in case anxiety’s lurking rn 🌿:

Herbarium of pressed flowers I created in 2017 from flowers from my garden